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The social determinants of health (SDH) are the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.
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A sociological understanding emphasizes the influence of people’s social backgrounds on the quality of their health and health care. A society’s culture and social structure also affect health and health care.
This perspective, a blend of medical sociology, social demography, and social epidemiology, emphasizes the social milieu of health, or what is more commonly known as the social determinants of health.
10 paź 2021 · We define social determinants of health as mutable societal systems, their components, and the social resources and hazards for health that societal systems control and distribute, allocate and withhold, and that, in turn, cause health consequences, including changes in the demographic distributions and trends of health.
29 kwi 2021 · Social determinants of health are an individual’s personal circumstances that impact their health and well-being. For example, they include political, socioeconomic, and cultural factors.
During the past two decades, the public health community's attention has been drawn increasingly to the social determinants of health (SDH)—the factors apart from medical care that can be influenced by social policies and shape health in powerful ways.
1 wrz 2013 · Three examples are: the social gradient of health, the population health perspective and the saliency of social fabric to both individual and societal well-being.
